From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 0:22:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1846B37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:21:12 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA98MDj88012; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:22:03 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: "Dib, Allan L" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: How to configure NTP on FreeBSD server and Linux clients Message-ID: <20001109002203.Q75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Dib.Allan.L@edumail.vic.gov.au on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:22:22PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:22:22PM +1100, Dib, Allan L wrote: > Hi everyone, > Can anyone clue me in on where to find some (detailed) info on installing and > configuring NTP on a FreeBSD 4.1.1 box and several *nix workstations. A search > on the FreeBSD site didn't yeild anything relevant. > > Thanks...... Installing NTP on a FreeBSD is easy since you don't have to. It is part of the base system. An NTP daemon comes standard with many UNIX-type OS flavors (also sometimes called xntpd). As for configuring it, see the ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) manpages. If this machine will just be a "client," that is, it will get the time from higher strata servers, an NTP configuration like, # # ntp.conf # server ntp1.server.somewhere.org server ntp2.server.elsewhere.org server ntp3.server.widewhere.org # I don't like the drift file in /etc driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift Should be enough. You can then just start the daemon by typing, 'ntpd', at the command line. To have it start on boot add, ntpd_enable="YES" To rc.conf. As for choosing your NTP servers and more on how NTP works, this is a good starting place, http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message